Chaos, Communications Theory, and God's Abundance

Zygon® ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 395-414 ◽  
Author(s):  
James E. Huchingson
Keyword(s):  
Communications Theory

Automatic Extraction of Acronyms from Text

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart Yeates
Keyword(s):  
Digital Library ◽  
False Positives ◽  
Automatic Extraction ◽  
False Negatives ◽  
Library Research ◽  
Communications Theory ◽  
Textual Content

A brief introduction to acronyms is given and motivation for extracting them in a digital library environment is discussed. A technique for extracting acronyms is given with an analysis of the results. The technique is found to have a low number of false negatives and a high number of false positives. Introduction Digital library research seeks to build tools to enable access of content, while making as few as possible assumptions about the content, since assumptions limit the range of applicability of the tools. Generally, the broader the assumptions the more widely applicable the tools. For example, keyword based indexing [5] is based on communications theory and applies to all natural human textual languages (allowances for differences in character sets and similar localisation issues not withstanding) . The algorithm described in this paper makes much stronger assumptions about the content. It assumes textual content that contains acronyms, an assumption which is known to hold for...

LA Psychiatrie Familiale, Les Systemes Transactionnels, Et Les Frontieres De La Pedopsychiatrie

1975 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-155
Author(s):  
Martin L. Solomon
Keyword(s):  
Child Psychiatry ◽  
Role Theory ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Open Systems ◽  
Ecological Factors ◽  
General System ◽  
Psychiatric Training ◽  
Communications Theory ◽  
Integrated Concept ◽  
The Many

Family therapists, seen as emphasizing interventions leading to change in family structure and in sequences of behaviour, have been searching for an integrated concept which transactional systems theory seems to offer. It takes into account small group theory, social role theory, communications theory, and general system theory, which are linked to psychic, somatic, socio-cultural, politico-economic, and ecological factors. This idea of interlinked, open systems which influence each other is used as a viewpoint for examining the frontiers of child psychiatry. Adult patients often have children who are affected by their parents’ treatment, and child psychiatrists often intervene with adults. Similarly, the boundaries between psychiatry and the paramedical professions have grown less distinct as we have become aware of more elements to assess in each case, and as the number of therapeutic techniques and possible interventions increase. The problem of defining child psychiatry is discussed, as is psychiatric training, in terms of the difficulty in integrating the many theoretical and practical levels.

What Kind of Studies Is Comics Studies?

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Benjamin Woo
Keyword(s):  
Film Studies ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Page Layout ◽  
Recent Growth ◽  
Comics Studies ◽  
Communications Theory ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Literature And Film

Dramatic recent growth in comics research suggests that comics studies has matured as a field, perhaps even constituting an emergent discipline. Yet important questions about the nature of this field and how it relates to established academic disciplines remain unresolved. This introductory chapter examines the genealogy of comics studies and explores the relationship between theory and method as a proxy for the field’s “paradigmatic” status. Four theories of page layout are analyzed as examples of theorization in comics studies. Drawing on Robert T. Craig’s “constitutive metamodel” of communications theory, the chapter ultimately rejects both attempts to retread the path of established humanities disciplines such as English literature and film studies and arguments against disciplinarity as such, calling instead for a dialogic conception of academic disciplines that continually reflects on the differences through which they are constituted.

scholarly journals Invigorating The Public Body : A Case Study Of HIV/AIDS Activist Confrontations Against Big Pharma For Access To Medicines

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Forhan
Keyword(s):  
Access To Medicines ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Neoliberal Globalization ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Body ◽  
Communications Theory ◽  
Politics Of Medicine ◽  
Health Agenda ◽  
Hiv Aids

Using 'illness as metaphor," critical communications theory, citizenship studies and critical political economy, this thesis presents a case study of the confrontation between "Big Pharma" and HIV/AIDS activists concerning access to HIV/AIDS medicines; a confrontation that spilled over into the World Trade Organization (WTO) causing worldwide public outrage. The timeline starts in the 1980s, but focuses on confrontations between these actors during the 1990s and early 2000s. By making HIV/AIDS 'public and 'political', activists: battled stigmatization; revealed the politics of medicine; made Big Pharma more socially responsible; influence the WTO's and global health agenda; and stirred dissent against a neoliberal globalization, exposing power relations between the global rich and global poor. This is about antiBody (HIV/AIDS activists) targeting a dangerous site of infection (Big Pharma) and combating the spread of two illnesses (HIV/AIDS and neoliberalism which invigorated the 'public body' in terms of public health and debate.

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